Mean Magazine

2009 saw the end of Mean magazine. Officially Mean is on hiatus, but it’s unlikely that the print version will be resurrected any time soon. Mean and the creative vision of publisher, Kashy Khaledi, lives on in music video projects Cinemash with Microsoft and Supervideo on MTV.com.

Here I’ve posted some spreads from the last four years. Editors were Andy Hunter, Sorina Diaconescu and Mya Stark. I hope fans of Mean enjoy some of these pages.
Around the same time that Mean was winding down, I started art directing two other magazines, Artillery and BrainWorld, and a literary journal Electric Literature. Posts of those mags can be found in the New Magazines section, and I’ve put a post of Electric Literature in the Books section.

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SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2008

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A lot of great creative in this issue, mostly thanks to Kashy and Mya Stark. If you can find a copy, there’s a fun pictorial featuring Bill Hader that is shot by Kurt Iswarienko and also illustrated by comic artist Sean Phillips. Also, a great photo feature with the legendary Ben Kingsley playing Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat fame for fans of Punk history.

And Sam Rockwell shot by… you guessed it, the very talented Mr. Iswarienko.

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WINTER 2007-2008

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This extra-fat issue (that’s XtraPhat if you were born after 1985) featured three different covers. Top is the deadly Javier Bardem shot by Kurt Iswarienko, bottom-left is Emile Hirsch (burning his social security card) shot by Patrick Hoelck, and bottom-right is Ewan McGregor doing his best Woody Allen shot by Rankin.

Thanks! I’ve always struggled with my typography, I have a tendency to be too plain and kinda old-fashioned… For Mean I was recently using the Avant Garde family with the additional ligature sets for most of the display text, but the last few issues I switched to Compacta and Helvetica Neue (the Krasinski cover is set in Helvetica Neue). The scripty type is Bellevue and Bickham.